Guessford Family History
- Guessford Name Meaning
- Possibly an altered form of English Gosford, a habitational name from places so named in Oxfordshire, Somerset, Suffolk, and Warwickshire, or from Gosforth in Cumbria. All are named from Old English gos ‘goose’ (genitive plural gósa ‘of the geese’) + ford ‘ford’ .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 8,279 Historical Documents with Guessford on Ancestry
- 2,128 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,364 Census and Voter Lists
- 404 Military Records
- 33 Immigration Records
- 4,350 Member Trees
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Number of Guessford families
 3 - 3  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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